How to replace stock battery icon in Dell Streak taskbar with circular icon that shows percentage

If you've ever looked at the stock battery icon in your Dell Streak's taskbar and wished you could see the remaining battery percentage as an actual number rather than a diminishing colored bar, then you should know that MoDaCo forum member Gopu has recently revealed himself to be part-genie. And yes, he's made one of your wishes come true.

As long as you like the way it looks and your Streak is running the venerable DJ_Steve's custom Froyo ROMwithoutkikamal's theme, then you can replace the stock icon with the circular battery icon, complete with gradient color fill and numeric percentage, shown in the "after" shot above. It may be possible to get this working on other builds, but it has only been confirmed to work on version 1.4.6 of DJ_Steve's ROM.

All you have to do to get this casino chip-looking icon in the taskbar of your Dell Streak is to download this .zip file (via MoDaCo) and flash it.

Anything you do to your Streak is done at your own risk.

I've provided written instructions on how to flash a .zip several times before, but here's the tutorial again, this time in HD video form. Note that the method is not exclusive to this battery icon tweak; it's just the standard procedure for flashing a .zip or ROM (which is also a .zip file) on the Dell Streak.

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Jenn K. Lee is the founder of Pocketables. She loves gadgets the way most women love shoes and purses. The pieces in her tech wardrobe that go with everything are currently the Samsung Galaxy Note II, Sony Tablet P, and Nexus 7, but there are still a couple of vintage UMPCs/MIDs in the back of her closet.

I thought a new battery icon something or other may be coming from you, Jenn, after the “Circular Battery Indicator” became unreadable with the whole white text on white background issue when installing it on Steves Froyo.

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john

You can get this sort of thing on the android market. I am looking at an icon now in my notification bar showing the percentage left in my battery. I also have an icon on my front screen showing a dial which changes colour as the power reduces

Rocky

Jenn thank you and im so sorry for consuming your time asking you to make a video. But just want to thank you a lot because you mafe streaking so easy for noob people like me. Thank you.

Yes, the only difference is that this actually replaces the stock icon.

You end up with two battery icons if you just use something that displays in the notifications area. There are some great battery indicators in the Market, though. My favorite is Darshan Computing’s “Battery Indicator.”

worth mentioning that if you have kikamal’s theme installed things can go a bit bonkers. I’d advise against if this is the case.

Sheff

Is there any way to make an app that does this on a rooted phone? I don’t have steve’s build and I flashed to the official 2.2 but I’m not wanting to do more flashing. Jenn I love the site. I went from thinking about returning my 1.6 streak to loving my 2.2 streak.

kasperke

nice vid ..just one simple question..i rooted my stock 2.2 with z4root to install some soft like the home led notification for sms/mms.
Is clockworks recovery just an apk file that i have to download from the forum and install?

Wow , I dint think that the icon I made with the online kitchen would make such a big impact….
Gopu

Wasabe

I wonder whats next…. Changing the plane icon to a helicopter :p

Darin

Thanks for taking the time to do the video. I am really having fun with my Streak.

JeremyDallas

This, unfortunately, does not work on the stock 2.2 release with the performance update from XDA (uses part of DJ Steve’s build). My Streak just booted to a Dell screen and never got past that point. I tried a standard factory reset, no dice, and then a full wipe / factory reset from Clockwork and it’s still just booting to the Dell logo…

JeremyDallas

FYI – I got myself back up and running by following your instructions to manually install DJ Steve’s 1.4.6 using FlashBoot.

If anyone gets stuck on a Dell screen using this mod then follow Jen’s instructions for manually installing 1.4.6 and you’ll be good to go.

rahul macwan

hi jenn i just wanna ask u i did ur update djsteve 1 nd now i’ve installed clockworkmod but it doesn’t come on screen like ur 1 when i press update.pkg frm SD card like ur’s it just gives me a blank screen… can u please tell me where am i going wrong my baseband number is GAUSB1A130900-EU nd my build number is 11548 how can i update to djsteve’s 1.4.6 nd wanna use clockworkmod….

thanks

huoyjii

Can you teach me how can I make one for the Official Dell Froyo 2.2 build if I am not running DJ_Steven 1.4.6?

For whatever reason, the battery percentage is a must have for me.

Thanks.

oduck

I already knew how to do this, but it was still comforting to see it in video form before doing it myself. I think a LOT of people will find this video useful. It should maybe be a pinned link in the forum too.

Darin Alperin

FYI there is a new version for Steve 1.5 build

Gopu

Sorry for the late reply. I have one made for that official 2.2 in the forum , if u follow the link above.

Also in the forum there is a link to kitchen where u can cook the one u want.

commanderastig

hello jenn, I tried to flash this to my streak running official froyo, but i got on the dell logo,it wont boot up completely. please please help me. i dont know what to do next. thanks in advance

As stated in the post, this is only for DJ_Steve Streaks. I think you will have to flash the official ROM again via recovery mode to get back to where you were before. You could also restore a Nandroid backup if you made one before attempting this.

commanderastig

ok , jenn, i did flashed the official froyo again and now running dj steve’s 1.5.1. i did flashed the numeric battery logo i got stuck yet again in the dell logo, but i took out the battery and rebooted my streak and… walaaah it works!! thanks alot jenn, you are a wonder woman!

Brandon

Is there any way to remove this after it’s installed? I’m using dj steve’s 1.6.0. The original notification bar in that rom is black. Installing this changed it to silver which I do not like. Thanks.